Down in the valley . . .
#16
black intake with zinc plated fasteners would look very nice.
I would say go gloss black (non wrinkle) with the polished or zinc plated fasteners. I dont like the powder coated wrinkle, its not wrinkle it looks just splotchy honestly. The wrinkle in a can is actually really good stuff, thats what i have on my car.
I would love to see gloss black intake and cam covers with highly polished fasteners, i was going to do that on my other set of valve covers and intake, but i got allot of compliments at sharktoberfest for my wrinkle red covers and wrinkle silver intake. I will detail it up and do the painted lettering though soon.
I would say go gloss black (non wrinkle) with the polished or zinc plated fasteners. I dont like the powder coated wrinkle, its not wrinkle it looks just splotchy honestly. The wrinkle in a can is actually really good stuff, thats what i have on my car.
I would love to see gloss black intake and cam covers with highly polished fasteners, i was going to do that on my other set of valve covers and intake, but i got allot of compliments at sharktoberfest for my wrinkle red covers and wrinkle silver intake. I will detail it up and do the painted lettering though soon.
#17
I was going for the 550 Maranello look. I like the black cam belt covers, and the black wires, it gives good contrast of black and red and silver. But the intake looks like a silver blob, i will sand off the lettering and paint the cast in letters.
#18
the high gloss black i would hope could come out like this.
This was my inspiration.........
As for the chrome look, i may experiment with a paint caller "mirrachrome" that has bits of aluminum to get that polished look from a paint. Not sure if it will stand up to the heat though, although the manifold really dosent get too hot you can never touch it.
This was my inspiration.........
As for the chrome look, i may experiment with a paint caller "mirrachrome" that has bits of aluminum to get that polished look from a paint. Not sure if it will stand up to the heat though, although the manifold really dosent get too hot you can never touch it.
#20
well i used a wrinkle finish paint. Some brands are better then others, I got mine from Summit racing, the stuff they sell produces a nice tight wrinkle. All i did was have the manifold and cam covers bead blasted, then i washed dipped them in an alodine and water solution as noted on the 928 tips site by nichols. Painted them with the wrinkle finish 3 good coats and set them in the over at 200 for an hour to get them to really wrinkle good. The Red turned out like a brick red and the grey looked like cement, so i put a light topcoat of a brighter red on and aluminum on the intake manifold to produce the shades that i have now.
Everyone seems to think powder coating is the only way to go, i like its durability but its 5X the cost to do it that way and I wanted a wrinkle and i know the powder coating wont give me that surface texture. I wil probably invest in the powder coating supplies for another time and try them myself at some point.
Everyone seems to think powder coating is the only way to go, i like its durability but its 5X the cost to do it that way and I wanted a wrinkle and i know the powder coating wont give me that surface texture. I wil probably invest in the powder coating supplies for another time and try them myself at some point.
#21
Originally Posted by soontobered84
Roger could have checked that for you at Third Coast. I saw that he had his Mity-Vac with him. Although he didn't have his Kempf tool
I hooked my shop vac up to the brake booster to draw out most of the air, figuring that I could then close the valve on the hose between the shop vac and the check valve and use the Mity-Vac (which was hooked to the small fitting on the check valve) to raise the vacuum. The shop vac will draw about 10cmHg of vacuum. But when I shut the valve between the shop vac and the brake booster, the Mity-Vac's gauge dropped to zero. Back to the drawing board. I guess I need a real vacuum pump to be sure.